Meet yourself where you are now: At the venues where your current shows are booked, with the audiences that are in attendance, and with your music as it currently exists now. It doesn’t matter whether your “now” is open mic nights or SXSW. 

 

Lots of musicians at the beginning of their performance journey have the attitude of, “These shows that I’m playing now, they aren’t that great. So I’m not inspired to give it my all just yet. But once I get that great show opportunity I’ve been dreaming of, THEN I’ll really try to put on a great performance and it will be awesome.” 

 

What most musicians don’t understand is that less than ideal shows are your performance bootcamp. And if you don’t dismiss them, but instead harness them to hone your performance abilities, they will get you in incredible performance shape for the ideal shows of your future. 

 

Every show is an opportunity to become a better performer. You can use each and every show experience to practice something important and develop yourself as an artist. 

 

And when you do step into those show experiences where everything is coming together–the audience is great, the venue is great, you’re playing off of the audience’s energy and you’re achieving a laser focus that’s elevating the experience of everyone around you–when you pair that with the hard-won skills you’ve built at some of your more modest shows–THIS is when you start to have explosive shows that change how you experience yourself as an artist.

XO, Julia Lucille

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